Falmouth High School Baseball

Recap

SOUTH PORTLAND 2, FALMOUTH 0

Bradley McMains pitched a one-hitter with nine strikeouts to lead the Red Riots (4-1) past the Yachtsmen (5-2) at South Portland. The lefty kept Falmouth off-balance all game and was effective at handling the Falmouth base runners.

In the top of the first inning, Sam Kidder walked and moved to second on a wild pitch but was stranded there.

In the Riot’s half of the first, a base hit and 2 stolen bases had a runner of third base. Kidder made a diving catch on a line drive hit to center field. The throw back to the infield was mis-played and the runner scored for a 1-0 SP lead after one inning.

In the second inning, Dom Tracy was hit by a pitch. Bennet Smith hit into a fielder’s choice replacing Tracy at first. Smith was thrown out attempting to steal second to end the Falmouth half of the inning.

In the bottom of the second inning, South Portland strung together 3 hits and scored a run to take a 2-0 lead. Brady Coyne turned a double play for Falmouth to end any further damage.

Eli Cowperthwaite started on the mound for Falmouth. He scattered 8 hits, struck out 4 and did not walk anyone. He gave up 2 runs, 1 of them unearned. After the second inning, he kept South Portland offense in check, but the Yachtsmen could not mount a rally to even the score.

Falmouth got another base runner in the third inning when Brennan Rumpf reached on an error, but McMains picked him off first.

Brady Coyne broke the through with a base hit in the fourth inning for Falmouth, but he was caught stealing.

Cowperthwaite was effective at preventing South Portland from increasing their lead. He gave up a hit in the sixth inning and with 2 outs was replaced by Ben Wilson. Wilson came in and promptly picked off the base runner at first to end the inning without throwing a pitch.

Falmouth went quietly in the seventh inning and South Portland took the victory.

Noah Dreifus had three hits and a run scored for South Portland. Andrew Heffernan chipped in a hit and an RBI single.

Falmouth had only 1 hit with only 1 runner making it to second base.

 

 

	Records	1	2	3	4	5	6	7		R	H	E
Falmouth	3-2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	0	1	1
South Portland	4-1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	—	2	8	1

Batteries—Cowperthwaite and Daniels; McMains and Dreifus. .
WP—McMains.
LP—Cowperthwaite.
Repeat hitters—SP, Dreifus.